Who cares. Both of opposing parties tried to suck up to protesters without much luck. Kaczynski (leader of PiS) lost all credibility when he admitted that he did not really know what ACTA was about when his party negotiated it, neither he does now, but he is of course sure that government is wrong. Palikot (leader of RP - second opposing party) was shouted down and physically forced back to his car when he tried to join protesters.
Actually in this case attendance was not a problem - tens of thousands physically showed up. It was also done with remarkably little violence, so at least media could not spin it as violent hooligans rioting.
In Poland both media and politicians are already trying to downplay it too. Either as bunch of thieves who are worried that gold days of getting stuff for free are going to end or as bunch of easily manipulated young idiots who don't even know what they are protesting.
I wonder how successful would be a company providing data storage service like Dropbox, but with guaranteed data security. I mean that all encryption would be done by client software (with source code provided so everyone can verify that) and no keys or unencrypted data would be ever transmitted to company's servers. In this case complying with warrants and subpoenas would be no problem - here is all we have, have fun decrypting.
When in Poland a parliament commission approved resolution asking prime minister to postpone signing ACTA, official from US embassy called demanding explanation why it was voted and who voted for it. Here is translated link from Polish source.
Well, US ratified neither Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court nor Convention on the Rights of the Child. So everything including "Ender's Game" scenario is legal.
And let's not forget about mysql + virtuoso + maildir akonadi resource + kmail2 taking over 1GB of resident memory whenever they feel like it.
When KDE 4.7 came out, I switched to Thunderbird. Later when buying a new laptop I noticed that almost all applications I run are multiplatform anyway. So now I run Windows 7 as my main OS. It needs some getting used to after using Linux/KDE for last 10 years.
Because like you he is a nutcase? Polish government arresting bloggers, yeah right. You almost got it, only it was one blogger who was never arrested or charged with any crime. But do continue - maybe you could write something about artificial fog or helium too?
You mean, if a cop drives over a speed limit, everyone who was ever arrested by him, should be immediately exonerated, right?
Actually it's the stupidest thing about US legal system, ever, that reliable, verifiable evidence can be thrown out for any reason.
No, it is not. It is the single most important rule that makes police respect the law at least sometimes.
Justice must operate on facts, not fiction.
But it does not operate on facts. It operates on two sides (prosecution and defence) playing tug of war. Facts help a little, but good rhetoric helps even more. This is adversarial system, which means that even if defence attorney knows for a *fact* that his client is guilty, he is required to try and get him exoneration or good deal.
Punish the people who break the law, punish cops who break the law more severely because they are given more trust, but keep the evidence.
And here you have the reason for 'tainted evidence' rule - cops are not punished more severely. They are punished very lightly or not at all.
Maybe some kind soul will want to sacrifice his career and years of his life to bring something really nasty to justice -- who are we to keep him from doing so? Certainly more harm is done by legalized "war on terror" crap.
I do keep them straight. Any organization or government that uses torture in order to extract information, force confession or just because they feel like it is bunch of savages in my book. Which can be applied to both sides of Afghanistan war.
Could you explain what Soviet or Syrian massacres have to do with anything? The only involvement of US and UK in Katyn was covering it up for political reasons.
Any source on those supposed tax breaks? US "afforded" companies to make billions because there are not taxes otherwise, no charity involved. As for imposing steep tariffs, good luck. Just first pay all your debts to China and other countries you will be screwing over.
"Plead guilty", are you serious?. So you have confession forced by torture, some kind of kangaroo court instead normal law process and you are just sure that his pleading was something else than "please don't send me back" ? Hell, even if agree to that 'unlawful combatant' thing (funny how in every war waged by US, the only lawful combatant are American and allied soldiers) article 3 of Geneva Convention still applies - especially humane treatment.
They do. Apple and others are helping less developed countries and poring money into their industry. Give it 20 or 30 years and those countries will be much better off. After that some companies will probably move to another less developed country and cycle continues.
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Interesting that ACTA also passed on Agriculture and Fisheries meeting. There is something really fishy with those guys...
You do know that there is quite a big Muslim minority in France too, right?
Trampling by herd of angry gnus. That's poetic justice.
They typically start with making sure that defendant cannot afford a lawyer? I guess this is a good way to ensure guilty verdict.
Who cares. Both of opposing parties tried to suck up to protesters without much luck. Kaczynski (leader of PiS) lost all credibility when he admitted that he did not really know what ACTA was about when his party negotiated it, neither he does now, but he is of course sure that government is wrong. Palikot (leader of RP - second opposing party) was shouted down and physically forced back to his car when he tried to join protesters.
Actually in this case attendance was not a problem - tens of thousands physically showed up. It was also done with remarkably little violence, so at least media could not spin it as violent hooligans rioting.
In Poland both media and politicians are already trying to downplay it too. Either as bunch of thieves who are worried that gold days of getting stuff for free are going to end or as bunch of easily manipulated young idiots who don't even know what they are protesting.
I wonder how successful would be a company providing data storage service like Dropbox, but with guaranteed data security. I mean that all encryption would be done by client software (with source code provided so everyone can verify that) and no keys or unencrypted data would be ever transmitted to company's servers. In this case complying with warrants and subpoenas would be no problem - here is all we have, have fun decrypting.
You must be confusing MS and Apple. Hint: it is not MS that is trying to make computer into consumer-only locked down appliance.
When in Poland a parliament commission approved resolution asking prime minister to postpone signing ACTA, official from US embassy called demanding explanation why it was voted and who voted for it. Here is translated link from Polish source.
Well, US ratified neither Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court nor Convention on the Rights of the Child. So everything including "Ender's Game" scenario is legal.
And let's not forget about mysql + virtuoso + maildir akonadi resource + kmail2 taking over 1GB of resident memory whenever they feel like it. When KDE 4.7 came out, I switched to Thunderbird. Later when buying a new laptop I noticed that almost all applications I run are multiplatform anyway. So now I run Windows 7 as my main OS. It needs some getting used to after using Linux/KDE for last 10 years.
It did not work. News stopped reporting it already and government reiterated that they are going to sign anyway.
Because like you he is a nutcase? Polish government arresting bloggers, yeah right. You almost got it, only it was one blogger who was never arrested or charged with any crime. But do continue - maybe you could write something about artificial fog or helium too?
That's actually a great idea. Just make sure combat is to death. It should thin ranks of lawyers pretty quick.
You mean, if a cop drives over a speed limit, everyone who was ever arrested by him, should be immediately exonerated, right?
Actually it's the stupidest thing about US legal system, ever, that reliable, verifiable evidence can be thrown out for any reason.
No, it is not. It is the single most important rule that makes police respect the law at least sometimes.
Justice must operate on facts, not fiction.
But it does not operate on facts. It operates on two sides (prosecution and defence) playing tug of war. Facts help a little, but good rhetoric helps even more. This is adversarial system, which means that even if defence attorney knows for a *fact* that his client is guilty, he is required to try and get him exoneration or good deal.
Punish the people who break the law, punish cops who break the law more severely because they are given more trust, but keep the evidence.
And here you have the reason for 'tainted evidence' rule - cops are not punished more severely. They are punished very lightly or not at all.
Maybe some kind soul will want to sacrifice his career and years of his life to bring something really nasty to justice -- who are we to keep him from doing so? Certainly more harm is done by legalized "war on terror" crap.
I do keep them straight. Any organization or government that uses torture in order to extract information, force confession or just because they feel like it is bunch of savages in my book. Which can be applied to both sides of Afghanistan war.
Could you explain what Soviet or Syrian massacres have to do with anything? The only involvement of US and UK in Katyn was covering it up for political reasons.
That's the american ideal after all. Why do you hate freedom, communist?
Any source on those supposed tax breaks? US "afforded" companies to make billions because there are not taxes otherwise, no charity involved. As for imposing steep tariffs, good luck. Just first pay all your debts to China and other countries you will be screwing over.
"Plead guilty", are you serious?. So you have confession forced by torture, some kind of kangaroo court instead normal law process and you are just sure that his pleading was something else than "please don't send me back" ? Hell, even if agree to that 'unlawful combatant' thing (funny how in every war waged by US, the only lawful combatant are American and allied soldiers) article 3 of Geneva Convention still applies - especially humane treatment.
Then fire all low level workers and let them starve.
Even those who get to pay much less for goods? Seems like you want all the advantages of globalization of none of its disadvantages.
So what? Since when Apple has any more obligation towards US economy than towards Chinese one? It is private company, not government agency.
They do. Apple and others are helping less developed countries and poring money into their industry. Give it 20 or 30 years and those countries will be much better off. After that some companies will probably move to another less developed country and cycle continues.